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Copper Patina - 6/20/2008 9:14:22 AM

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Well guys I have been making lots of suncatcher out of stained glass lately. I have a show coming up on the 4th of July and wanted to make some garden art and use up some of my stained glass. I ran out of copper patina and my local shop was out. I did a little digging and found out you can make your own. So I tried it yesterday and it worked great. I went to home depot and bought this stuff called Zep Root Kill (in the plumbing section). It is copper sulfate crystals. You boil a cup of distilled water and add 6 tsp of the copper sulfate and mix until is dissolve. Add a 1 tsp of lemon juice. It makes the same patina you buy from stained glass suppliers and it's cheap to make. I paid about $6 for the copper sulfate and it will last a long time. Use Mothers California Gold Pure Carnauba Wax ( you can find it at any auto store) to polish to a brite copper. I also use the wax the piece before I put the patina on. This is the trick to getting copper patina to work great.

Andrea

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RE: Copper Patina - 6/20/2008 12:45:37 PM

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What an awesome discovery! Thanks for sharing that recipe!

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RE: Copper Patina - 6/21/2008 7:13:13 AM

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Sweet!

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RE: Copper Patina - 6/21/2008 9:53:39 AM

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That's great info Andrea, thanks! Hope you've been doing well

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RE: Copper Patina - 6/21/2008 7:17:27 PM

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